An excellent follow up to the last edition. Quick and easy to find information in the clinic setting. A book I use on a regular basis. This book also has excellent background information for the student. Of value to students and practitioners.

I hope my funeral turns out to be this much fun. Old friends come together at the funeral of Titanic Thompson and start telling stories. Titanic's life gives them plenty to laugh about as each story tops the one before it. If Thompson were a fictional character, the stories would be amusing. But the fact that he was a real person and the stories are real (though undoubtedly exaggerated as they have passed through the years) makes them hilarious. If Titanic were alive today, he would have a seven figure shoe contract with Nike. But in his day, he had to find creative ways to use his incredible athletic talents and intelligence to separate people from their money. This is a fun and quick read that will have you repeating the stories to your friends.

I loved this book. It demonstrated for me the real "art" of gardening. William Morris was a clever and far sighted man who advocated staying within the parameters of nature and natural beauty when making gardens. He also perpetuated the "garden room" theme which has been enormously popular since the eighteeth century. I refer to this book continuously and strive to design and construct garden rooms in my own garden which are as beautiful.

Paul Gauguin was at the heart of the Post-Impressionist movement with his lush, colorful artworks revolutionizing modern painting a the turn of the 19th Century. Largely self-taught in a diversity of media including oil painting, printmaking, and ceramics, Gauguin came to his career as a Parisian artist relatively late in life, and went on to paint subjects drawn from where he would live ranging from Brittany and Martinique, to Tahiti, and the Marquesas islands. In Gauguin, art expert Britt Salvesen drew from research developed by Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, enhanced with 79 superbly presented illustrations of which 52 are in color and 27 are duotone. Gauguin is a very highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library art history reading lists and reference collections in general, as well as being strongly commended to students of the life and work of Paul Gauguin in particular.

This book is concise, yet extremely informative. Richard H. Rovere and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. prove to be a great match in writing the "General and the President." The book opens on a brief note on General Douglas Macarthur's early military history, followed by the outbreak of the Korean war, and the origins and climax of the feud between General Macarthur and President Harry Truman. It comes complete with maps of Korea, political cartoons from the era, and a well documented appendix consisting of speeches, conversations, and testimonies from key government officials of the time. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the Korean War and the famous feud.

REVIEW IN SPANISH

Este es un excelente libro introductorio para la genética de peces, especialmente para acuaristas, acuicultores y biólogos marínos. En general presenta un ingles simple que permite que sea leído por casi cualquier público que domine algunos terminos técnicos, característica que será muy apreciada por los lectores de habla hispana. El autor hace una muy buena división de la genética en fenotipos cualitativos y cuantitativos la cual resulta muy didáctica.

La genética mendeliana (fenotipos cualitativos) está tratada con exelente claridad enfocando todos los topicos (principios mendelianos, epistasis, penetrancia, expresividad, pleiotropía, etc) con ejemplos de peces, principalmente peces ornamentales (se las recomiendo a los acuaristas que deseen saber más acerca del control genético de los rasgos de sus peces ornamentales de interes).

La genética cuantitativa (fenotipos cuantitativos) es de las más simples y lúcidas explicaciones que he leido. Este tópico esta dividido en explotación de la varianza aditiva por selección y en la explotación de la varianza de dominancia por hibridizacíon. Aqui el autor expone parte de su experiencia en programas selectivos con tilapia. Finalmente el libro trae un pequeño capítulo introductorio a la biotecnologia, corto pero preciso. Aquí se exponen temas como inducción de triploides, gimnogenesis y androgenesis, ADN recombinante, etc.

El libro además de incluir un glosario de términos técnicos que facilita la lectura a las personas no especilistas en el tema, incluye además un anexo con estadistica básica y uno de nombres científicos y comunes de los peces mencionados en el texto, muy útil para los lectores.

En resumen un excelente libro introductorio para quienes le interese la genética en la cria y producción de peces. CRISTIAN ARANEDA T. ICBM - Programa de Genética Humana Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile Casilla 70061 Correo 7 - Santiago de Chile

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Michael Pellecchia

A book filled with joy and love! A compilation of unique and delightful quotes - no, NOT the same old repetitions! But delightfully appropriate quotes of 95 different subject such as "Learning from Mistakes", "Realizing Your Dreams", "Spreading Smiles Around, and "Understanding What Makes You So Outstanding". Bright colors, illustrations and easy to read print make this a a pleasure to read and the well-chosen, unique quotes make for joyful inspiration. A treasure to give someone you really care about, especially yourself!

Girlhood In America: An Encyclopedia is a massive, 800 page, two volume reference work presented hundreds of signed articles by more than eighty high-profile interdisciplinary scholars covering girlhood from a range of academic perspectives including history, cultural studies, education, media studies, literature, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. Ably edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell (associate professor of history and former director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Missouri, Kansas City) this impressive compendium showcases how portrayals of girls in children's literature, magazines, movies, toys, music, and other media have deeply influenced girls' perceptions of themselves. Also presented is a wealth of clinical information on, and insights into, such issues for girls as body image, eating disorders, emerging sexuality, and depression. Excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and autobiographical novels help to illustrate the subjective experiences of girls throughout American history from the first settlements along the Atlantic coastline down to the present day. Strongly recommended for academic and community library reference collections, Girlhood In America is enhanced with numerous black-and-white illustrations, end-of-entry bibliographies, and a comprehensive index. Girlhood In America is also available in an ebook format...

This is a great book for the glaze enthusiast. It has an unbelievable wealth of information that is difficult to find anywhere else. It will be a reference manual for years to come. It has great insights into obscure ceramic problems, like cause of bubbles in glazes, etc.